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MBTA fare hike could take effect in early July 9-alarm blaze
By Brogan Calkins
Daily Free Press Staff

Bus and subway fares on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority would
increase 10 cents this fiscal year if a new
proposal passes.
The Massachusetts Department of
Transportation finance committee announced the possible fare hikes Tuesday.
These fare spikes would also raise the price
of monthly bus and subway passes from
$70 to $75, and the commuter rail monthly
passes would increase anywhere between
$5 to $17, depending on the distance being traveled. The proposal, if approved by
a MassDOT board meeting being held on
April 9, would be implemented by July 1.
MBTA fare increases last came in the
summer of 2012, increasing an average of
23 percent. To put an end to fare fluctuations of that magnitude, a transportation finance law was passed in the State House
limiting the fare to increase only 5 percent
over two years. The changes would average about 5 percent, according to MBTA
spokeswoman Kelly Smith.
“A 10-cent increase isn’t consistent
across the board. Some fares are raised by a
nickel,” she said. “Legislature provides for
a 5 percent raise over a 24-month period,
and this was averaged across the [MBTA]
services.”
These fare increases are expected to

takes lives of 2
Boston firemen

By Adrian Baker and Alice Bazerghi
Daily Free Press Staff

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The MBTA announced Tuesday a proposal for a 10 cent increase in fares for subway
and bus rides that would begin July 1.

bring an extra $20 million to the usual
$24.5 million of revenue to the MBTA.
John Harris, Boston University economics professor, said the fare increase could
be attributed to rising costs of keeping the
MBTA running.
“They have a huge deficit that has to be
made up from taxes in the community,” he
said. “Increasing fares is easier than get-

ting more money from taxpayers.”
With the price to ride the T increasing,
the number of people who would still ride
comes into question. Smith said although
the MBTA recognizes that an increase does
make a difference, they do not expect the
average commuter to stop using the T or
buses as a result.

Boston University’s College of Communication announced Monday that it will
launch an online program this summer to
assist Chinese graduate students with their
assimilation into the university, the city of
Boston and American culture.
The optional program will be an entirely online course system that deals with
language and cultural issues, said Stephen
Quigley, a COM associate professor of
public relations who organized the program.
“The essential point of COM is that it is
an English language-based communication
college,” Quigley said. “Any non-native
English speaker is going to have a challenge coming to an American university,
but in a communication discipline, that
challenge is going to be increased.”
The courses will begin July 1 and run

through August. When the COM grad students arrive on the Charles River campus in
September, the program will enter a second
phase involving face-to-face interaction,
Quigley said.
“There will be regular workshops with
those students and those workshops will be
led not just by faculty but also by current
Chinese-speaking graduate students and
Chinese-speaking graduates of COM,” he
said. “... [The workshops] will help orient
students not just to the COM environment
but the internship and career environment.”
A similar online university-wide orientation program currently exists for international students, known as the Center for English Language and Orientation
Programs, but it requires a supplementary
charge, Quigley said.
“There is an additional fee [for CELOP]
and it’s not obviously COM-centric,” he
said. “So this would really be the first time

that COM has made an attempt to deal with
these issues prior to enrollment.”
The program was one of four projects
to receive seed grant funding from BU’s
Digital Learning Initiative, which allocates
university funds to support innovative efforts in the general topic of technologybased learning, said DLI Director Chris
Dellarocas.
The DLI found COM’s proposal a valuable program to fund, said Dellarocas, a
School of Management professor of information systems.
“We thought this was a very interesting idea to try out, both because this would
solve concrete challenges COM is facing
right now, but also because if successful,
the idea can be generalized and applied
more broadly on campus,” he said.
Dellarocas said the program addresses

Orientation, see page 2

A nine-alarm fire broke out in a four-story
brick row house on Beacon Street Wednesday, spurred by the gusting winds throughout
the day, and resulted in the death of two firefighters.
Firefighter Michael Kennedy, 33, of Hyde
Park and Lt. Edward Walsh, 43, of West Roxbury were killed in the fire, after responding
to the blaze at 2:45 p.m.
“The men and women of Boston Fire
Department are the brace heroes who run towards the danger when others run away,” said
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh in a statement.
“A day like today makes us all too aware of
what they are risking in the course of doing
their jobs. They are heroes simply by virtue
of accepting this duty. They put themselves
in harm’s way so that others might be safe.”
Josh Zakim, city councilor of District 8
where the fire occurred, said the scene was
so hectic that he did not know many details
about what had occurred, but said the fire
caused the death of two brave firefighters.
“It was a very serious fire,” he said. “Folks
have been displaced from their homes, and
firefighters tragically have been injured and
killed today. This is the first time in a while
that any firefighters have died in the line of
duty ... I don’t have any more information at
the time than that. The mayor’s office has set
up a station near the location to provide resources and help.”
Many residents were at the scene of the
fire, drawn by the mountain of smoke billowing from the rooftop, noticeable from even
across the Charles River.
“We were walking back from Newbury,
and we just saw lots of police cars and fire
trucks,” said Lily Glassberg, 24, of Dorchester. “We could see the smoke from far away
and smell it as we got closer, and the closer
we got, we started breathing in the smoke.
There are cop cars everywhere, it’s pretty insane.”
Liam Henkels, 28, of Back Bay said the
scene was confusing with everyone wanting
to know what was going on and who was safe.
“No one really realized what was going
on at first, but we could see the smoke,” he
said. “Then we realized it was a really serious
fire, and we heard that some of the firefighters

To prevent companies from promoting
irresponsible and underage drinking, Phusion Projects LLC, an alcoholic beverage
company that put out Four Loko, is paying $400,000 in settlement fees after Massachusetts Attorney Gen. Martha Coakley
filed allegations against them for unlawful
advertisements.
Coakley filed the allegations in 2010,
accusing Phusion of violating consumer
protection and trade statutes that prohibit
deception in marketing, according to a
Tuesday release.
“Binge drinking and underage drinking
are public health concerns, and it is essential that companies market their products
responsibly, particularly when they are
selling alcoholic products that may appeal
to minors,” said Coakley in the release.
“We are pleased that the company will improve the marketing and promotion of its
flavored malt beverages to prevent dangerous drinking behaviors.”

Jim Sloan, president of Phusion Projects, said his company did not violate any
laws and disagrees with the allegations
against him. However, the company had
many reasons for amicably settling the dispute.
“We consider this agreement a practical
way to move forward and an opportunity
to highlight our continued commitment to
ensuring that our products are consumed
safely and responsibly only by adults 21
and over,” he said.
In addition to paying $400,000, Phusion
will be required to make several changes to
their marketing campaigns. They are now
prohibited from promoting the misuse of
alcohol, distributing or promoting alcohol to people underage and promoting and
manufacturing the mixing of alcohol with
caffeine, particularly in one of their main
products: Four Loko.
“The agreement also notes Phusion’s
decision several years ago, in 2010, to re-

Four Loko, see page 2

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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Tuesday that Phusion
Products, LLC, owner of Four Loko, has agreed to a $400,000 multi-state settlement for
violations relating to marketing the beverage to underage consumers.

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Four Loko parent company Current Chinese students agree American
cannot affiliate with schools culture orientation class could be helpful
Four Loko: From Page 1

formulate Four Loko to remove
caffeine, as well as guarana and
taurine,” Sloan said. “Phusion
continues to believe, however, as
do many people throughout the
world, that the combination of
alcohol and caffeine can be consumed safely and responsibly.”
They are also prohibited from
hiring underage persons to be a
part of their promotions and from
hiring models for promotional
materials that are under 25 or appear to be under 21, and they cannot affiliate their brand with any
schools or colleges or distribute
merchandise with their brand imprinted on it to underage persons.
Sloan said the attorney generals like Coakley have decided to
allocate the $400,000 to continued efforts in increased education
on the misuse of alcohol and the
enforcement of current laws surrounding the use of alcohol.
“As we all know, underage
drinking and alcohol abuse are
serious problems in need of serious solutions,” he said. “They
will not, however, be solved by
singling out specific products or
alcoholic beverage categories …
Phusion Projects will continue to
undertake and support productive
efforts to make sure our products
— and all alcoholic beverages
— are used legally, safely and responsibly.”
Many residents said prevent-

ing inappropriate and deceptive
advertising is important, but that
Coakley may be taking it to an
extreme.
“It’s good to prevent there
from being mixed messages to the
youth in our society,” said Lidia
Maldonado, 51, of the South End.
“Stopping companies from promoting binge drinking and underage drinking is good, but they
may be going too far when they
stop the company from selling
stuff with their brand on it to anyone underage.”
Matthew Hames, 30, of
Allston, said the results of the
settlement are too strict.
“I’m not sure I agree with there
being laws like this for how companies can advertise,” he said. “In
the free market, companies should
be allowed to advertise how they
choose unless it becomes offensive to a large group of people …
this may be controversial, but it’s
not harmful to anyone. And the
people consuming it and the people modeling for them are doing
so by choice.”
Tesa Hartmann, 45, of Boston,
said she was surprised similar allegations are not more frequent.
“It surprises me there haven’t
been lawsuits over cigarette companies advertising smoking as
cool and fun — it seems like the
same issue,” she said. “If they’re
going to hold [Phusion] to this
standard, they need to be consistent across the board.”

Neighbors displaced after
fire burns through building
Fire: From Page 1

were actually injured.”
Tracy Taylor, 30, of Back Bay
who lives on Beacon Street, said
the fire started in the basement and
had risen up all the way through the
roof before spreading to adjacent
buildings.
“One of the bigger concerns
right now, because of the wind, [is
that] it could jump over between
buildings,” she said while looking
at the fire.
Taylor said she is not sure of the
damages, but she needs to look for
a place to stay.
“I was at work and my chef

came over to me and told me there
was a fire and that I should go home
and make sure everything’s okay,”
she said. “I was just in shock and
panic … I’m thinking of a place to
stay in the meantime in case I can’t
stay in my apartment.”
Walsh said his thoughts were
with the two firefighters families as
they face such a terrible loss.
“Words cannot do justice to
the grief that we feel tonight,” he
said in a statement. “Our hearts
are heavy with the knowledge that
these brave men gave their lives to
protect the safety of our city and its
people.”

Orientation: From Page 1

the culture shock felt by many international students at BU.
“We live in a world where we
have an increasing number of foreign students coming to American
universities,” Dellarocas said.
“This, of course, is very welcome
for a number of reasons, but also
creates a number of challenges
because we need to assimilate
students who come from different
cultures.”
Di Liu, an School of Management freshman from China, said
while an online orientation would
alleviate the generality of the
on-campus orientation in terms
of helping international students
adjust, it eliminates the real-life
experience on-campus orientation

provides.
“It [online orientation] is going to be easier, but it’s going to
be less fun, because when there’s
orientation, teachers show you
around the school and actually get
you familiar with those schools,”
Liu said “When it’s online, it’s
kind of not that real.”
CAS sophomore and China native Hao Dong said that an online
course could not substitute for the
value of on-campus orientation.
“I did Common Ground, so I
got to walk around the school and
get to know it,” he said. “This is a
new environment for international students, so I think that orientation is important for them to be
familiar with the environment and
the school.”
However, as an additional re-

source, an online program would
be useful in helping incoming
international grad students better
understand American customs,
Dong said.
Libo Tang, an SMG junior
from China, said receiving American cultural immersion before
arriving on campus would have
aided him in adjusting to American life during his freshman year.
“My English was pretty bad
at the time [freshman year], so I
just didn’t communicate with any
other people on my floor — I was
just totally lost,” Tang said. “I
think other people feel the same
way as I did. If there’s some way
to help them to get more involved
with the American culture and environment that would be great.”

Because the MBTA system is
an essential means of transportation for many people, Harris said
he does not think the ridership
would be notably affected.
“The T is a necessity,” he said,
“This not being a huge hike in
prices, I can’t see the ridership
significantly decreasing.”
The MBTA knows the regular
commuters and users of the system will keep up to date on any
price changes.
“MBTA policy changes typically get some media attention,”
Smith said. “Regular riders of the
T will be well aware of the increase before it takes place.”
The MBTA will typically do

everything they can to prevent
increases in fares to their riders,
said Smith, but with operating
costs so high, this increase could
hardly be avoided.
Several residents said a fare
increase is a small inconvenience,
but it would not prevent them
from relying on the MBTA as a
main source of transportation.
“I don’t think it’s too big of a
deal,” said Evan DeCroteau, 27,
of South Boston. “Two-dollar
fare is a pretty round number;
$2.10 is a little less convenient. I
guess that’s what I’m most concerned about because I never have
change on me.”
Rachel Markiewicz, 51, of
Back Bay, said this increase is

minimal but even if the price only
increases by 5 percent every year,
it will eventually be expensive.
“Didn’t the price just increase
a lot a few years ago?” she said.
“A 10 cent increase doesn’t sound
like a lot, but I’m just worried
about exactly how high [the fare]
will go.”
Jake Silverman, 35, of Boston,
said seeing prices go up is not
pleasant, but a natural occurrence
throughout time.
“I guess the costs are rising,
so it makes sense for the fare to
go up,” he said. “Nobody wants
to see the cost of public transportation rise, especially in the
city. I’m still going to ride the T,
though.”

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GIRL, 21

The lost years

We have almost no information about Jesus’ life between his
ages of 12 and 30. Some claim he
continued with carpentry, while
others believe he toured Europe,
even making a stop at Glastonbury to play
with Oasis. This
period of time,
one might think,
is the most important stage of
development in
a person’s life,
whether they go
SYDNEY L.
on to become a
SHEA
doctor, antique
salesman or savior of all mankind.
No one likes looking back at
pictures of their awkward in-between years. I, for one, would not
be thrilled if photos of 12-yearold me were publicly displayed
for everyone to see my clunky
glasses and weird sense of style.
The only time I look back at these
years is when I want to cry over
how wonderfully skinny I was before I discovered the wider world
of carbohydrates.
This gestation period still plays
into who I’ve become as a person,
and compared with Jesus, I still
have nine more years to go. But
Jesus’ silent years have sent me
into a reflection the past couple
of days about the differences between my life as a pre-teen and
teenager, through now when, in
the words of Britney Spears, I’m
“not a girl, not yet a woman.” I
still cringe if a stranger refers to
me as a “lady” and I immediately
check to make sure I don’t have
any new wrinkles on my forehead,
then take a hit of Botox just in
case.
I remained childlike past childhood. Everything, even up until my first year of college, has
always been exciting and new,
somehow playing a significant
part into whatever my path will
be. Young children are constantly
fascinated with even the simplest
of things, and I maintained this
sense of newness of the world
from my first time putting on a
Varsity cheerleading uniform
freshman year of high school to
my first class at Boston University
with a stomach full of butterflies
on angel dust (the butterflies, not
me).
It’s sad to be coming to the
end of this period. Although I’m
content with the world, fewer and
fewer things strike me as exciting
and the fairy tale of college is over.
I’m too comfortable with my limits and need to learn how to push
them again, or even how to just explore. Sometimes it’s easy to just
feel stuck in myself.
I frequently think about advice that I would have given my
12-year-old self and fantasize
about a time machine that could
take me back and warn me about
the mistakes I was in the process
of making. Too many people settle
for less and hold on to the notion
that they would not change their
current situations for the world,
good or bad, which is one of the
most absurd things I’ve ever heard.
By the time I’m 30, I will be
grateful, however, only if no one
knows about my embarrassing
childhood photos, racy college
anecdotes and most importantly,
these columns.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Study: Grad student loan debt on the rise Gun buy-back

program gets 75
guns off street

By Mina Corpuz
Daily Free Press Staff

While undergraduates at schools
such as Boston University account for
much of America’s student loan debt,
a report released Tuesday suggests
that graduate student debt has seen
significant increases between 2004
and 2012.
“It is important that people consider the costs of their education before
they start, particularly a graduate degree,” said Randall Ellis, a professor
of economics at BU’s College of Arts
and Sciences. “... It used to be that
graduate degrees would almost automatically lead to finding a job. That
seems less true today, given stiffer international competition.”
The report, which was issued by
the New America Foundation, used
data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to get a broader
sense of how much debt students pursuing master’s degrees and other professional degrees have accrued.
“The context for focusing on student loans and debt is because of the
outstanding student loans in America
that have hit $3 trillion,” said Jason
Delisle, director of the New America
Federal Education Budget Project and
author of the report.

By Felicia Gans
Daily Free Press Staff

strong impression on faculty during
his time at BU.
“We’re very, very proud of Douglas for all the work that he has done
up until now, and looking forward to
having someone of his caliber at the
helm of a critically important organization on a topic that is a thorny and
difficult one,” she said. “HIV/AIDS
is a very challenging problem, and
there are many causes and many consequences.”
Brooks began at the JRI as a social work intern before advancing to
the role of senior vice president for
community, health, and public policy.
“Each step along the way, I’ve
worked and served with brilliant,
compassionate and dedicated people,” Brooks said. “At JRI, I was
allowed to grow and learn — and I
think — make meaningful contributions to the organization and the
health and human services field.”
Brooks also served as the first
chair of AIDS United, an organization created from the merger of National AIDS Fund and AIDS Action

In an effort to tackle the gun violence that infiltrated Boston’s streets
earlier in the year, Boston Mayor
Martin Walsh announced a series of
measures to decrease gun activity
and abuse, including a regional gun
trafficking summit, renewed funding
for a summer jobs program and a gun
buy-back program.
The gun buy back, entitled Your
Piece for Peace, was instituted Monday at 12 p.m. A total of 75 guns
have been taken off the street since
the program’s start, with 40 guns on
Monday and 35 guns on Tuesday,
according to a Boston Police Department spokesman.
“This is the first step in a longterm, city-wide mission to prevent
violence,” Walsh said in a Monday
release. “The illegal trafficking of
crime guns is one of the primary
threats to the safety of our neighborhoods across this country. In the
absence of federal action to close
dangerous loopholes that allow criminals and prohibited purchases to
have easy access to crime guns, we
must take action regionally to confront this problem head on.”
Guns will be accepted at district
police stations and designated dropoff sites Monday through Friday
from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., no questions
asked. All firearms must be unloaded
upon delivered, and ammunition
must be delivered in a separate bag.
BPD Commissioner William Evans spoke about how and why the
city instated the program at the first
Mondays with the Mayor on Monday night in Brighton. He said they
are aiming to collect 1,000 guns over
the next couple weeks.
“I support taking any gun we can
off the street,” he said. “Already this
year, we’ve taken 136 guns off the
street. We work hard every day to
make the neighborhoods safe. Every
gun off the street is one less gun that
might take an innocent victim.”
Jim Wallace, executive director
of the Gun Owners’ Action League,
said the city’s leaders have good intentions, but gun buy-back programs
are not effective tools to fighting
crime or preventing accidents.

Brooks, see page 4

Guns, see page 4

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The New American Foundation released a report Tuesday that suggests
the amount of debt graduate students owe by the end of their education
is rising.

The average combined undergraduate and graduate debt in 2012
was $57,600, $99,614 at the 75th
percentile, and $153,000 at the 90th
percentile, according to the report.
The figures were adjusted to inflation
in 2012.
“The underlying issue is that there
is not a coincidence that the biggest
change came when the government
changed its policies on student debt,”
Delisle said. “Beginning in 2006, students could borrow whatever amount
of charges. Before that, there was a

cap on that amount.”
Because student loans have barriers that increase their costs, such as
high interest and repayment rates, it is
more difficult for graduate students to
pay off their debt while receiving an
advanced education, Ellis said.
“There should be government subsidies to the interest rates to promote
investments in education,” he said.
“There is individual risk that one student may not pay off their loans, but
collectively it is an excellent invest-

Debt, see page 4

SSW graduate to lead Office of National AIDS Policy
By Drew Schwartz
Daily Free Press Staff

U.S. President Barack Obama
appointed Boston University School
of Social Work alumnus Douglas
Brooks as the director of the Office
of National AIDS Policy on Monday,
where Brooks and his team will work
to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS and
to ensure equal access to treatment for
victims of the fatal conditions.
“For me, there is no doubt that
serving this President, with whom
my values are greatly aligned, is both
amazing and humbling,” said Brooks,
who lives with HIV. “To then also be
able to serve in an area that is professionally and personally significant to
me is, yes, a dream come true.”
Brooks and his associates will
help implement the National HIV/
AIDS Strategy and the HIV Care
Continuum initiative, cooperating
with the White House National Security Council, the State Department’s
Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and international organizations to
advance America’s response to the
global pandemic and integrate it with

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efforts around the world.
Brooks said his experiences at
SSW, where he received his master’s
in social work in 2002, helped secure
his position at the White House.
“It was at BU that my natural
gifts met with professional training,”
Brooks said. “Faculty taught — and
modeled — an understanding of the
essential need to approach each micro
and macro issue through the lens of
the interrelated and interdependent
systems that people encounter on a
daily basis.”
Brooks said the foundation he
gained at BU has proved essential to
his professional career, including his
work with the Justice Research Institute, AIDS United and the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
“He gained a lot of experience in
the local, state and federal government sectors,” said SSW Dean Gail
Steketee. “That’s essential for playing
a role in Washington, where he’s going to need to respond to the needs of
a large constituency across the country.”
Steketee said Brooks made a

Boston University was ranked the
13th-best private university in Massachusetts for its return on investment
Wednesday, according to an organization called PayScale that rates colleges and universities on their total cost
and average alumni earnings.
PayScale’s 2014 College Return
on Investment Report found the average BU alum yields a 20-year net
ROI of $406,000, and an annual ROI
of 5.4 percent.
Though several students said investing in a bachelor’s degree from
BU was a good investment, some said
the university placed too high a premium on receiving an education.
“I have a lot of family members
that went through Boston University
and came out with very successful
jobs,” said Richard Keating, a College of Arts and Sciences junior.
“They were able to pay their student
debt off in no time because of their
Sydney L. Shea is a senior in the Boston University degree.”
College of Arts and Sciences. She
Keating said he felt he would ulcan be reached at slshea@bu.edu.

timately see a strong return on his investment in his education.
“I did an internship and it just
seems that everywhere I go people
know Boston University, and to everyone in Massachusetts, Boston
University is looked highly upon,” he
said. “It’ll be worth it in the end.”
Tom Meeus, a junior in CAS, said
though receiving scholarships to BU
made attending a responsible investment, the average student was disadvantage by the cost of tuition.
“You can’t go into school and
come out with $200,000 in debt,” he
said. “If you’re coming out of a bachelor’s with that much debt, you’re
behind for the rest of your life, and
you’re trying to play catch up. Especially in today’s job market where just
a bachelor’s doesn’t even get you that
far.”
PayScale, one of the largest aggregators of data on salaries of college graduates in the country, roots its
rankings in the 20-year returns typical
graduates who hold only a bachelor’s
degree receive on their investments in

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PayScale released its 2014 College Return on Investment Report,
which depicts the differences in ROI between state schools and
public schools.

higher education.
“If you’re applying to college there
are many things for you to consider,
both qualitative and quantitative factors,” said Katie Bardaro, PayScale’s
lead economist. “But one of the most
important quantitative factors is what
is your potential income.”
Badaro said PayScale primarily

allows graduates to understand their
true value in the labor market by
comparing their salaries, which they
volunteer to the website along with
information about their educational
background and employer, to those in
similar positions.

Investment, see page 4

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Prof.: Interest rates to blame for most debt Director: Gun buyback may
DeBt: From Page 3

ment for the country. [Student loans]
have very high repayment rates. You
cannot avoid them by declaring bankruptcy like you can credit card, mortgage or car debts.”
Michael Manove, a professor of
economics in CAS, said the investment in higher education could be
worth the debt for the future return.
“Second interest rates are very important,” Manove said. “Students who
borrow at 8 percent will have much

larger loan payments than student
who borrow at 4 percent. The median
debt of borrowers is about $58,000,
but if you buy a modest house in the
Boston area, your mortgage debt is
likely to be on the order of $400,000,”
he said. “Higher education tends to
generate quite a bit of income. Home
ownership does not.”
Several students said that finding
a job is necessary to help pay off the
debt from their education.
Samuel Needham, a second-year

graduate student in BU’s School of
Theology, said earning a graduate
degree is worth incurring debt if the
possibility of getting a lucrative job is
high.
“If you’re going to graduate school
because you don’t know what you
want to do or you are just good at
school, I’d advise against that unless
your education is funded,” he said.
“Earning a law degree with reason to
expect to be hired is smart, but for the
humanities not so much.”

Brooks strives to initiate AIDS-free generation
Brooks: From Page 3

in 2010. He said he helped move
the organization closer to achieve its
mission of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States.
“It’s some of the exact same work
that we must now do to achieve the
goals of the NHAS,” he said.
As a member of the Presidential
Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS,
Brooks said he gained a working
knowledge of the barriers and facilitators integral to creating an AIDS-free

generation.
“The PACHA experience was
invaluable for deepening my understanding of how the federal government works and how it does not
work,” he said.
Steketee said Brooks’ PACHA
work has likely introduced him to
the individuals he will work with in
Washington and prepared him for his
work with ONAP.
“What Douglas brings to this is
his fundamental understanding of the
community and what the community

needs,” she said. “Now he will play
that out at the national level.”
Brooks has proved committed to
the needs of local and larger communities, consistently providing muchneeded services throughout his professional career, Steketee said.
“It’s absolutely delightful to have
our graduates playing critically important roles in the federal government,” she said, “to guide policies and
practices that are going to have such a
big impact nationwide.”

“You can’t just go up to someone
and say how much do you make to
try to understand if what you’re paid
is paid fairly,” Badaro said.
In 2009, the organization began
compiling the information they had
accrued to assemble the rankings,
which currently places BU as the
75th-most valuable private highereducation institution in the nation.

“The information we’re trying
to put out there with the ROI [return on investment] is not to say the
only thing you should consider when
you’re going to college is what your
paycheck is going to look like,” Badaro said. “In no way do we think that’s
true. It’s just a piece of what the overall decision is.”
Lauren Nuclo, a sophomore in the
School of Management, said the reputation of an individual’s alma mater

plays a minimal role in their ability to
find a job.
“On the premium on getting a degree from an elite school, there’s not
that much of a difference between an
elite school and a regular school if
you take into account other factors,
like your ambition,” she said. “The
degree only gets you so far. You can’t
just rely on the name. You also have
to apply yourself and really go after
what you want.”

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Guns: From Page 3

“Gun buy-back programs are,
more or less, a feel-good thing,”
he said. “If they were successful at
fighting gun crime, then why don’t
we have drug buybacks to fight drug
crime? It’s just one of those things
where people are frustrated, and
they’re not exactly sure what to do,
so they have a gun buy-back program.”
Wallace said he is most concerned that people will unknowingly
sell a collectable gun to the city for
less than it is worth, and that the “no
questions” policy will make gun-related crime harder to solve.
“If somebody is turning in a gun
that might have been used in a crime,
and this is completely done through
an anonymous situation, where
there’s no tracing, there’s no capability of actually finding out who that
person who is turned in the gun,” he
said. “It might have been used in a
crime, and then it ends up being destroyed and the evidence is gone.”
Several residents said the new
gun buy-back program is a significant step for Walsh and BPD to keep
gun violence numbers down in the
city.
Seth Benzell, 23, of Allston, said
he is concerned with the economic
implications of the buy back program
on the city.

“In an extreme case, we’re talking about thousands and thousands
of guns being brought into the city
and the administration committing
to buy them,” he said. “We’re talking about large cash outlays to no
end. All we’re doing is financing a
program to bring guns from Point A
to Point B and it could hypothetically
be very expensive if the price is high
enough.”
Karen Hernandez, 29, of Fenway,
said she used to live in Colombia,
and the gun buy-back programs installed there were extremely successful in decreasing gun violence.
“Anything to keep guns off the
street is awesome,” she said. “Gun
violence predominantly happens in
lower class neighborhoods. Sometimes, the people are using guns in
order to get money to pay bills. So
maybe those are the people that will
be giving their guns back because
they’re the ones that need the most
money.”
Ethan Markham, 24, of Brighton,
said any program that can be instated
to bring down gun violence in the
city and the state is worthwhile.
“I see no good reason that people
should be carrying around guns at
all,” he said. “I don’t think anyone
needs guns. If people didn’t have
guns, no one would be shooting each
other, and no one would need them.”

ason Bateman isn’t a bad guy
at all. He doesn’t even play
one on TV. For a few years
about a decade ago, his beleaguered
Michael Bluth on Fox’s Arrested
Development went to near-superhuman lengths to remain “a good
guy.” But deep down, something
sinister smoldered. The bad guy
needed a turn.
“We all have this guy in us,”
Bateman said in a phone interview,
his pleasant demeanor untainted by
any inner evil. “You hope that you
can keep this person under wraps.”
Luckily, he found a reasonably
healthy outlet in Guy Trilby, the
protagonist but hardly the hero, of
his latest film Bad Words. On paper,

Guy is a bad guy. The film follows
the very grown-up Trilby as he
exploits a loophole in order to pit
himself against grade-school spelling bee contestants in pursuit of settling a mysterious grudge with victory. Along the way, he terrorizes
children and parents alike with his
imaginative brand of awful, awful
meanness. You just don’t threaten
to accuse a little boy of having ticking carry-on baggage without some
baggage of your own.
“I was adequately confident that
I could make him likeable enough,
only because I’ve been playing the
straight man, the middle man, the
put-upon guy, the protagonist for
a long time now,” he reasoned. “I

knew that you’d need to see some
flashes of that, some exposures of
his core, to make his prickliness
palatable.”
There’s really no doubt that
Bateman can handle that sort of
challenge. But Bad Words is also
his directorial debut, which probably complicated things a little
more. Still, Bateman said it wasn’t
something he could easily say “no”
to.
“I’ve been basically acting
mostly for the last 15 or 20 years
with the goal in mind of trying to
create enough capital, enough relevance, enough of a profile in the
business as an actor, so that I can
ask for the directing reins,” he explained. It’s worth mentioning that
Bateman’s actually been acting
for more than 30 years. With time
comes expertise, but also a touch of
boredom.
“With directing you’re trying to
create a completely fake world for
the audience and trying to shape an
experience for that audience for two
hours, both with what they see, and
what they hear, what they feel. It’s
just – to me it’s just a much more
challenging and gratifying creative
effort,” he said. “I mean, I don’t
want to belittle acting at all, but
maybe it’s just because I’ve been
doing that for so long and it’s just
so comfortable to me [that] I was
really excited about the challenge

of taking on more responsibility.”
He almost didn’t bother trying
to juggle both his own directorial
responsibilities and Guy’s nagging
demons; Jason Bateman the Actor
had a good idea of who Guy would
become before his camera, and had
a few names in mind. Though after Choice #1 and Choice #2 — he
wouldn’t name names — turned out
to be unavailable to take on the role,
he changed his mind.
“I liked my chances,” he
smirked.
That’s not to say that Jason
Bateman the Director had it so easy.
There was still the issue of tactfully
combining horrifying dialogue and
a cast of mostly young children.
(NB: I wish I could repeat some of
the things here for you but, while
they’re hilarious, they’re absolutely monstrous. Even euphemizing
would make you blush.) To Bateman, that was only a problem if you
have a problem with it.
“I think it’s tough for kids to
see violence done as well as Hollywood can do it nowadays … but
saying a dirty word here or there,
or looking at a woman’s breasts?
There’s a prudeness in this country at this time [and] this isn’t one
of those areas that needed to have
too much handwringing about,” he
said. “There is a very crude, tactless, generic popcorn version of
this kind of humor, and that is not

something I was ever interested in
making.”
Bateman saw something a little
heartbreaking in all of the meanness. After all, it’s clear from the
beginning of the film that Guy has
been wronged in some way and
he’s dealing with it in the best way
he know how. It’s more ignorance
than malice; Bateman cited Carroll
O’Connor in All in the Family. Like
O’Connor’s Archie Bunker, Guy
Trilby isn’t looking to hurt anyone.
He just needs a little tact.
“I’m not that good at a lot of
stuff,” Guy confesses in his opening voiceover. “Especially thinking
things through.”
Whether you agree or not is
really up to you, and Bateman admits that the film is “definitely not
for everyone.” But, the strength of
one’s stomach aside, it’s tough to
dispute that any filmmaker that is
this invested, this dedicated to his
work is certainly worth serious attention moving forward.
“Personally, I was able to accomplish something that we all try
to get to at some point in our lives
— and hopefully multiple times —
which is being proud of yourself,”
he said.
He deserves it; he’s a good guy.
Bad Words enters wide release
on March 28, and stars Bateman,
Kathryn Hahn and Philip Baker
Hall.

Fondue for two: Belly Wine Bar warms you up the cheesy way

B

ut baby it’s cold outside. It is
cold outside. I know most of
you are sick of it, but it’s going to stay that way for some time
(probably until mid-April, so take
out your tissues). Really, the only
way to survive this long, depressing winter is to hibernate like a
bear. And if there’s one thing we’ve
all learned from our favorite bear,
Winnie the Pooh, it’s that food will
always do you good. So let’s go and
find something to eat.
Welcome to the Belly Wine Bar.
With its wooden ceilings, red brick
walls, dimmed lights and interesting art deco tiles, the place looks
like a European chalet with a modern twist. There’s even a burning
fire pit outside — but more on that
later. Belly is a wine bar, and you
can’t say wine without saying charcuterie and cheese too. The menu
provides an extended list of both,
along with oysters, small plates (all
for $6), first courses (around $15),
main courses (around $25) and … a
cheese fondue.
Cheese fondues are the best fondues. Do you know why some people actually like winter? It’s not for
the snow or Christmas season, it’s
for the sake of dipping things into a
pot of melted, warm, gooey cheese.
Cheese fondues are one of those
traditional treats that only make

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sense when rivers freeze and people
slip on ice. It’s a winter thing. And
Belly Wine Bar is one of the few
places in Boston that does it right.
To get a cheese fondue at Belly,
you need to call a day in advance
and arrange it. The fondue is for
four to six people at $14 per head.
Show up on time, get seated and, as
you wait, bask in the crowded yet
cozy atmosphere of the wine bar,
lounge music included.
When the fondue arrives, you’ll
be a bit disappointed. The pot of
“coveted Alpine cheese,” as described on their website, looks very
small. But never fear, Belly knows
what it’s doing and the pot only
looks small. Accompanying the
cheese are the fantastic four: slices of green apples, little Brussels
sprouts, endive leaves and pieces of
focaccia bread. You can use the fondue forks or your fingers, but either
way, you’re going to get messy.
The green apple and cheese
combo creates a sweet and juicy
result with a fresh crispness that
relieves some of the cheese’s heaviness. Apples and cheese go hand in
hand; they’re a dynamic duo and
they know how to satisfy.
With endive there’s no way
around the bitterness, though they
do result in an interesting and pleasant crunchy-watery mixture. But it

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gets a bit overwhelming, as the
leaves are rather huge, with tartness
dominating the palate. So, if the
endives are last on your plate, just
use them as spoons to ladle melted
cheese into your mouth. Sometimes
cheese just needs to be drunk.
Next up are the Brussels sprouts.
Grilled, the sprouts capture the
cheese into their little crevices,
making every bite an explosion of
crunchy delight.
Finally, the classic: bread and
cheese. The large fluffy pieces of
focaccia just soak up the cheese
like a sponge. The hard bread goes
soggy in a satisfying way, and the
combo simply melts on the tongue.
With bread, you can truly taste the
sometimes too-subtle alcohol in the
cheese fondue. There’s a reason
why the French only use bread for
their cheese fondues: it’s simple,
decadent and delicious. The best.
That night, Belly offered two
desserts: a chèvre gelato ($8) and
DIY s’mores ($4). This is where
the fire pit comes in. They hand
you everything you need and you
make your own s’mores — weather
permitting, of course. The chèvre
gelato, on the other hand, is made
for you. Cheese fondues tend to
be heavy, so ice cream is always
welcome afterwards. You get
two scoops of thick goat cheese

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The rich cheese fondue selection at Belly Wine Bar in Cambridge makes
it the perfect place to hide from the gusts and flurries of this neverending
winter.

ice cream with drizzles of honey,
citrus zests and sweet rosemary
shortbread with fennel seeds. It’s a
wonderful dessert that soothes the
mouth with subtle sweetness and
little outburst of acidity.
Belly Wine Bar will make you
forget where you are. You’re not in
Boston. You’re near mountains, in
the Alps, about to go skiing. It is a
little chalet in the middle of Kendall Square where you do not dread
the cold but make the most of it.
So go out and enjoy now while it’s
still chilly outside, because one day

you’ll be complaining that it’s too
warm outside. And eating a cheese
fondue then would simply not make
sense.
Belly Wine Bar
One Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 494-0968
Open Sunday through Wednesday from 5 to 11p.m. and Thursday
through Saturday from 5 to 12 p.m.

According to a New York Times article
from earlier this month, President Obama is
about to reach a significant milestone in his
six years of presidency in regards to immigration reform. However, this is not a milestone that represents progress, but rather,
utter failure. In the next few weeks, the government is likely to have deported two million immigrants during Obama’s six years in
presidency.
To further discourage the faith in the government’s ability to fix the immigration system in our country, it was reported this week
that 23 teachers from a Texas school district
are facing deportation. Even though these
teachers have fulfilled the requirements, documentation and qualifications stated by the
government to become a permanent resident,
they are still falling victim to the merciless
deportation laws of our country.
About 8 percent of teachers in the Garland, Texas school district are made up of
immigrants who were hired with the promise
of permanent residency. But, after an investigation in February revealed mistakes made
in their H-1B Visa Work Program paperwork,
the school district was forced to report itself
to Homeland Security. And now, because of
these mistakes, the lives that these 23 teachers have built in America with their families,
friends and students are teetering on the fine
line of our flawed immigration system.
According to Public Schools Explorer,
a source for public education data, in the
past five years, the success and proficiency
of Garland students has improved. In South
Garland high school, in particular, the percent of students who meet the college-ready
criterion on the TAKS (Texas Assessment
of Knowledge and Skills), SAT or ACT increased from 27 percent to 32 percent from
2007 to 2010.
Additionally, the percent of high school
seniors who graduated received a GED or
continued high school increased by more
than 3 percent from 2006 to 2010.
Although these 23 teachers who are facing deportation may not have been directly
responsible for this jump in Garland’s student
success rates, they were still a part of the system that cultivated these successful students.
Students tend to become attached to teachers
who help them succeed, and deporting their
mentors will cause those students to resent
our government and, if anything, teach them

to lose faith in it at an early age.
During his administration, Obama vowed
to make it easier for undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship and stay in
this country if they are contributing, working members of the society. Doing so would
mean lightening the definition of “aggravated
felony,” which is a broad category of criminal offenses that carry severe consequences
for those seeking permanent citizenship.
Under a lightened definition of “aggravated felony,” the government would allow
those convicted to minor crimes such as marijuana possession, forgery and tax evasion to
stay in the country. And yes, that would also
permit Mr. Justin Bieber to avoid deportation
as well. We can’t always win them all.
If an egg-throwing, Lamborghini-racing,
paparazzi-assaulting entitled pop-star can
stay in this country, what kind of precedent
would this country set if 23 loyal teachers
were deported due to faulty paperwork?
In a message directed to House Republicans, actress and activist America Ferrara
took the stand on Wednesday urging them to
defy Speaker Boehner and sign a discharge
petition that would bring immigration reform
up for a vote.
“Every day that you refuse to act is another day that 1,100 families are torn apart by
senseless deportations,” Ferrera said. “So we
are here, demanding a vote for the families
dreading that knock on the door, hoping and
praying that they will not be one of the 1,100
today.”
According to a 2011 report by the Applied
Research Center, more than 5,000 children
are in foster care because their parents have
been deported.
Earlier this month, the New York Times
reported that Obama has a “deep concern
about the pain too many families feel from
the separation that comes from our broken
immigration system.” According to a White
House statement, he said that the deportation
of undocumented immigrants should be more
humane, and “cited concern” for those families affected.
Well, Obama, how about you channel that
“deep concern” into concrete action, and help
the 5,000 children left behind in foster care,
and protect the hundreds of other students
who are about to lose their beloved teachers
to deportation.

A book entitled “How to Poo on a Date: The Lover’s
Guide to Toilet Etiquitte” won the prize for the year’s
oddest book title. We here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering what how-to book people at BU would publish.
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SMG: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
CFA: How To Dance Out Your Feelings
ENG: How To Find the Moment
SHA: How To Fold a Napkin Like a Pro
BU Athletics: How To Lose
President Brown: How To Stick a Vacuum In People’s Wallets
FreeP: How to Get Coffee From Starbucks as it is Closing

Life in the left lane

It’s her choice,
not ours
SARA Ryan
I had the distinct pleasure of walking
past Planned Parenthood this week while
protesters were in front of it. They were
handing out pamphlets and carrying signs.
All of this would have been fine, except one
of the old white guys yelled after me, “Did
you know they kill babies here? 22,000 babies are murdered every year.”
First of all, I have no idea where they
got this statistic because I’ve done some research and the most recent numbers aren’t
anywhere close to this. According to the
Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet, they performed about 324,000 abortions in 2008.
Of the 700 Planned Parenthood clinics in
the United States, only 216 perform abortions. That makes about 1,500 abortions
per clinic per year. I’m no math major, but
— oh wait. I am.
Either the clinic on Commonwealth Avenue performs 14.7 percent of all abortions
in the country, or these protesters have no
idea how many abortions are actually performed every year.
Second, I really hate that these protesters choose to stand outside Planned Parenthood. I understand why they do it logistically, but they can be intimidating to young
girls who are just trying to get some help. If
100 people walked into a clinic, only about
three of them would actually be there for
abortions. Think about that. The other 97
women (and men) are there for STI testing,
pregnancy tests, breast cancer screenings
and contraception. Not only are the protesters scaring away women who are there
for abortions, but also those who are there
for other medical procedures that I believe
most of said protesters would support.
The American Cancer Society estimates
that 40 thousand women will die of breast
cancer in 2014. If Planned Parenthood
can prevent even one of those deaths, that
seems like pretty noble work to me. However, if a woman is going to be harassed
or yelled at just for getting a mammogram,
maybe she won’t get one. Maybe she will
decide that she doesn’t need the preventative care and her cancer will go undetected.
The First Amendment protects the freedoms of speech and assembly. However,
there is a limitation on freedom of speech.
A citizen is allowed to say whatever he
or she wants as long as it doesn’t infringe
upon the rights of others.
I believe a woman has the right to a safe,
legal abortion without fear of intimidation
from others. Roe v. Wade was a controversial ruling, but it was definitive. Every
woman has a right to choose. If there are
half a dozen protesters calling her a mur-

derer as she walks into the clinic, is it really a choice?
I’m not convincing you to agree with
my stance on abortion, but is there any
chance we can agree on this? Women don’t
deserve to be harassed or intimidated on
the way to see a doctor, regardless of why
she scheduled the appointment.
I’ve tried to gain some perspective on
this issue. I understand why these people
protest and intimidate (perhaps unintentionally). If you accept the premise that
abortion is murder, then how could you
not do everything you can to save as many
lives as possible?
The problem here is that legally, it is not
technically considered murder during the
first trimester. Almost all clinics explain all
courses of action before deciding on abortion. They don’t need help from protesters
on the street. Clinics want abortions to be
safe, legal and rare.
I don’t have a solution or some overarching “Kumbaya” message. There’s no
happy ending to this story. But, I wish
there was. This has probably been the most
difficult piece I’ve written since I started
publishing three years ago. This issue is
incredibly personal and complicated, and
I’m not arrogant enough to believe that my
opinion is the right opinion for everyone.
It doesn’t matter if people disagree with
me, or scream “right on!” as they read this.
For just one minute I want my readers to
put themselves in the shoes of that 20-yearold girl walking into a Planned Parenthood.
It doesn’t matter why she’s there. Just
imagine how she must feel as she walks
up to the door as some 45-year-old woman shoves a pamphlet in her direction and
starts spewing facts.
It’s not like “Juno”, where she has a
pleasant conversation with a classmate
who casually mentions that her baby has
fingernails. It’s a flurried moment of interaction where the other person attempts to
intimidate and persuade in the five-second
window before she gets to the door.
I don’t want to go through that. I don’t
want my sister, best friend or future daughter to go through that. There’s a difference
between protesting and intimidating. While
I’m not a fan of either, one seems downright illegal. I’m not expecting consensus,
just consideration. Women have the right to
choose. Don’t take that away from them.
Sara Ryan is a freshman in the College of
Arts and Sciences studying political science
and math. She can be reached at sryan15@
bu.edu.

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Chipps: Mascots essential to college athletic experience, school spirit
Chipps: From Page 8

ment you get in the costume, you are no longer
just some regular person walking down Commonwealth Avenue. You’re Rhett, and you’re
the man. Everyone loves you and you have to
love them back.
That means taking pictures with everything
and anything: guys, girls, kids, dogs, other
mascots and of course, the President of your
esteemed university.
From the moment you become the mascot,
your life is never the same. When you’re not
on the job, you feel the urge to do something
crazy in attempt to make your class lecture a
little more interesting. When you’re in the suit,

you feel like a different person, capable of doing things like cartwheels and backflips that
you could never imagine doing out of the suit.
As March Madness comes into full swing
these next two weeks, I thought it would be a
great time to reflect on my days as the mascot
and remind everyone of just how important we
are to the games.
Whether it’s the St. Joseph’s University
Eagle flapping its wings for every second of
the basketball game, the University of Oregon
Duck’s doing an immense amount of push-ups
during football season or even the University
of Georgia Bulldog’s slobber falling from his
mouth, the college mascot has always played a

vital role in the college sports experience.
The mascot is and will always be forever
heralded and loved at every school. The mascot is the symbol that represents everything
your school stands for. Whether it’s a Trojan,
a Buckeye, a Sooner or a Terrier, the mascot is
oftentimes the best representation of what each
school embodies.
I retired from the suit after last season, citing mental fatigue and bad knees. It wasn’t an
easy decision, but I decided to move on from
the superhero business while I was still at the
top of my game.
Hanging up the suit was one of the hardest
things I’ve ever had to do, but part of the job

is knowing when it’s time to call it a quits and
pass the esteemed job down to a protégé.
For the short time I did have the honor of
wearing the suit, I felt like a Dark Knight. During the day, I was just another student at Boston University attempting to make it to class on
time. At night, I was Rhett the Terrier, Boston
University’s beloved mascot who rightfully
served the community by providing stability in
an unstable universe.
In today’s society where things are changing
so rapidly, there will always be two things you
can count on: taxes and your friendly, but sometimes extremely rowdy college mascot.

Stolen bases, McCravey lead Army
Softball: From Page 8

said about the matchup. “That’s just playing the
game. The coaching staff looks at the opponent
and we do our scouting reports and look at the
stats but for when it becomes game time, it’s
all about playing the game and we just play the
game one pitch, one out, one inning at a time.”
In terms of offensive, the Black Knights sit
in the middle of the pack of the conference.
Army is fourth in the Patriot League in batting
average and on-base percentage at .268 and
.325, respectively. But Army does, however,
top the conference in stolen bases with 52 bases
swiped.
“They like to run,” Gleason said. “They’ve
played a pretty good schedule and obviously
been affected by some weather as well but
we’re excited to have our first Patriot League
opponent and I know they are a well-coached
team and they’re just aggressive on the bases.
They have quite a few steal attempts and been
successful there so we’ll just be ready for a fastpaced game and it’s not like it’s something we
haven’t yet. We’ve seen it in other opponents
this year.”
Offensively, the Black Knights are helmed
by infielder Kasey McCravey. A 2013 FirstTeam Patriot League third baseman, McCravey

leads the team with a .417 batting average, four
home runs, 24 RBI, .430 OBP and a .694 slugging percentage.
Gleason said BU will not change its approach from the circle against McCravey.
“We’re just going to pitch to her like we
would anyone else in that situation,” Gleason
said. “Obviously our goal is to keep them off
the bases and do that as well as we can but try to
minimize her at-bats. Getting through the order,
one, two, three.”
The key for the Terriers will be to keep their
strong pitching going. Freshman Makinna Akers has posted a 2.02 ERA in 52 innings pitched
over 14 appearances and seven starts. Sophomore Lauren Hynes has led the team with 74.2
innings pitched thus far, and has also won seven
ball games. But, it may end up being the defense behind all three pitchers that will determine how the Terriers fare down at West Point.
“[The pitchers’ success has been about]
just working together,” Gleason said. “We’ve
had a lot of games where we’ve split. Lauren
will pitch a half and then Makinna will pitch a
half. Just trying to get ground balls and let the
defense play behind you. If we get a strikeout,
great, but just letting the defense play behind
you, and that’s been our focus all year.”

about the improved play of the defense.
For his efforts, Talkow was named the
Patriot League Rookie of the Week, joining
Dearth and Johnston as the third consecutive
Terrier to win the award.
The Midshipmen (3-5, 2-3 Patriot League)
will be looking to turn things around against
the Terriers as they are in the midst of a threegame losing streak. Navy’s latest defeat was a
10-7 home loss to Colgate University, a team
that beat BU by a score of 7-5 on Feb. 22.
Navy’s offense, led by attack Sam Jones, is
one of the most prolific in the Patriot League.
For his part, Jones ranks second in the league
in assists and is third in points. Attack T.J.
Hanzsche is also tied for third in goals per
game (2.12). In the loss to the Raiders (7-2,
3-1 Patriot League), seven different Midshipmen notched goals.
To combat this, BU will have to improve
its own offensive efficiency. Right now, the
Terriers are last in the league in shot percentage.
“We’re gonna try a couple new combinations and more importantly we’re gonna focus
on maintaining possession and making better
decisions,” Polley said. “Teams haven’t been
particularly sliding to us that often. They’ve
been challenging us to win our 1-on-1 battles
so we’ve been working on that with the attack and midfield. We’ve been working on our
1-on-1 dodging and trying to create opportunities from that.”

Winning the faceoff battle will also be
crucial in this contest. Midfielder Brady
Dove and Talkow rank first and second in the
league, respectively, in ground balls per game.
Talkow is first in the league in faceoff percentage while Dove ranks fourth.
“I think [winning the faceoff battle] is
going to be very crucial,” Polley said. “Sam
[Talkow] actually knows [Dove] and has
faced him in the past at some other clinics
and things like that so I’m curious to see that.
They’re both freshman and they’re both having great years. Possession is gonna be a really
important part of this game. We’ve struggled a
little bit to score so every possession we get is
going to be helpful.”
While faceoffs have been a strong suit for
the Terriers, Polley said he wants his team to
improve with ground balls.
“Our goal this weekend is gonna be to focus on ground balls,” Polley said. “On the season, we’re minus-37 and if you remove the faceoffs, where we are plus-18 at the faceoff X,
we’re really minus-55 on the year and that’s
something we know we have to improve upon
and something that leads to our low output offensively… We’re really focused in on trying
to create extra possessions for our offense. We
want to give our offense as many opportunities as we can to score.”
Overall, Polley said he hopes his team will
play a consistent and complete game against
the Midshipmen.
“We’re going to try and put it all together
this weekend.”

Godett seals win with 5th goal of season
Women’s Lacrosse: From Page 8

position shot, making the score 5-3.
In response, senior midfielder Sydney Godett notched her fifth goal of the season with
eight minutes to go to give BU a 6-3 cushion.
In the game’s final minutes, the Bulldogs attempted to fight their way back into the contest,
first with DeVito scoring just three minutes af-

ter the Godett tally. Yale continued to press on,
and then came away with a free-position goal
with just 27 seconds left in the game.
It was too little, too late for the Bulldogs,
however, and BU won the draw after Yale’s
fifth goal and maintained possession to finish
the game, winning 6-5.

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Sophomore pitcher Lauren Hynes leads the Terriers this season with seven wins.

Meegan steps up with 7-save performance
Defense: From Page 8

“The fact that these players battled through
a game like this is just a credit to their hard
work and determination,” Robertshaw said. “I
know many of them couldn’t feel their feet. The
wind was really tough to run into and it really
disrupted our defensive sets in the second half
because our players couldn’t hear them coming from the sidelines. It was a gutsy game we
played through.”
The true force of the Terrier defense did
not lie in the weather though, but rather in the
stick and pads of freshman goalkeeper Caroline
Meegan. The Timonium, Md., native has done
an admirable job filling in for injured senior
goalkeeper Christina Sheridan. Meegan has
started eight of nine games this season for the
Terriers, including playing against two national
contenders in No. 1 University of North Carolina and No. 2 University of Maryland.

Against Yale, Meegan came up with seven
saves, including one in the final minutes that
prevented a comeback. The Patriot League
Rookie of the Week was strong versus the draw
control, stopping five of the Bulldogs’ seven attempts.
“[Meegan] is getting more and more confident with each game,” Robertshaw said.
“You’re just seeing a player who was given an
opportunity at the beginning of the year and
has run with it. She’s making the most of every
minute she’s in cage. She’s gained confidence
in the defense in front of her.”
Going forward, a strong defense will prove
to be a valuable weapon for Robertshaw to
have in her arsenal, but she is not counting her
blessings quite yet.
“Our defense is doing a good job of playing aggressively, while playing smart,” Robertshaw said. “I’m happy with our play lately, but
we still have some room to improve.”

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Quotable

You’re just seeing a player who was given an
opportunity at the beginning of the year and has
run with it.

-BU coach Liz Robertshaw on the play of
freshman goalkeeper Caroline Meegan

paGE 8

Sports

RAIN CHECK

The Daily Free Press

The BU softball team had two of its
games canceled this week due to
inclement weather, P.8.

Isaac Chipps
I always knew I was different.
I always knew my purpose on this
planet was one of obscurity.
It took me 17 years to find my
proper profession, but similar to superheroes, once I found my purpose
in life, I knew I had to use it for good
and for the benefit of others.
So when I realized I was destined
for greatness by becoming a mascot,
I knew I had found my true calling
in life.
By day, I’m Isaac Chipps, a
5-foot-something Boston University
student with a receding hairline and
a severe Chipotle addiction.
By night, I’m Rhett the Terrier
— Boston University’s mascot who
saves the world one women’s soccer
game at a time with energetic cheers
and bodacious moves on the sideline.
My job is to serve and protect. To
serve my fellow Terriers by providing comedic relief, energy and enthusiasm during our athletic events, and
to protect my fellow Terriers from
any attacks or intrusions from the opposing team.
Sure, being the face of your
school is an honor I take with great
pride, but it does come with its fair
share of difficulties.
Like any superhero, we mascots
struggle to fight our demons. Like
Batman’s battle with the Joker, we
struggle for supremacy against the
opposing team’s mascot. Like Superman’s battle with kryptonite, we fight
the temptation to take nights off and
become complacent.
The job certainly has it perks too,
especially the fame. But that’s not
why we do it.
We do it because deep down, we
know that college sports needs us.
Without the mascots, the college
sports experience would be utterly
boring and kind of pointless.
We provide the necessary and vital halftime entertainment, generally
consisting of our savvy dance moves
and flirtatious kisses to the crowd.
We get the crowd excited about the
game by flapping our wings, hitting
our heads against walls, doing lots
of push-ups and even getting into the
occasional fight with the opposing
team’s mascot (it’s a rite of passage).
As a mascot, it is your duty to
give 110 percent for the entirety of
your tenure in the suit. From the mo-

The Boston University women’s
lacrosse team took on Yale University Wednesday afternoon at Nickerson Field.
The Terriers (4-5, 3-0 Patriot
League) came in having won their
last two games, with their latest win
coming over the then-No. 14 U.S.
Naval Academy. Conversely, the
Bulldogs (5-3) entered the contest
on a two-game losing streak. Despite
battling through winds that at points
reached more than 30 miles per hour,
BU emerged victorious by a score of
6-5.
“The players today had to fight
through that wind,” said BU coach
Liz Robertshaw. “That wasn’t easy.
I can’t feel my feet, I know a lot

of them can’t either. So I just think
for both teams, Yale and BU, that’s
a gutsy game right there that they
played through.”
Yale won the draw to start the
game, and both teams exchanged
shots and turnovers for about eight
minutes, as neither team grabbed momentum early on. Robertshaw called
a timeout at the 23:20 mark to try to
regroup her players.
BU came out of the timeout firing on all cylinders, and just a minute
later the Terriers scored off a free-position shot from senior attack Elizabeth Morse.
The Terriers continued to play
with aggression and at the 16:14
mark, BU extended the lead with a
goal from sophomore midfielder Ally
Adams.
On the other end of the field, the

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WoMen’s LaCrosse, see page 7

By Justin Pallenik
Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University women’s
lacrosse team built on its recent defensive success Wednesday in a 6-5
victory over Yale University.
Coming off of a win over the incumbent Patriot League champion
U.S. Naval Academy, the Terriers
(4-5, 3-0 Patriot League) have gained
much-needed confidence in the past
few games. Their win over Navy (91, 3-1 Patriot League) snapped the
Midshipmen’s three-year undefeated
streak in conference play.
In BU’s last three games, it has
held each opponent under 10 goals,
leading to three victories. These three
contests have seen the Terriers limit
their opponents to an average of 21
shots per game.
“I think the defense is playing
with confidence right now,” said BU
coach Liz Robertshaw. “They’re really clicking in terms of following the
game plan we set forth.”
This defensive improvement
shone bright in the win over the Bulldogs (5-3). Every time Yale rushed
down to the offensive end, a stingy
Terrier defense waited to greet them.
The defense, led by Patriot League
Defender of the Week senior Christie
Hart, swarmed the Yale attack, causing 22 turnovers.
“I told them that I was really impressed with the way they disrupted
Yale’s offense with some of the big
scorers that they have,” Robertshaw
said. “That’s a hot team that’s been
scoring some goals recently.”
Wednesday’s game was a defensive struggle from the first whistle
blow. The 30-mile per-hour winds
made the Terriers’ defensive stick
checks all the more menacing as the
game wore on. Robertshaw admitted
after the game, however, that the BU
defense was not immune to the conditions either.

DeFense, see page 7

Softball to travel to West Point BU comes home after road swing
By Joon Lee
Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University softball
team will have to wait another couple
of days to play its first game in Boston due to the cancellation of the Terriers’ matchups at Bryant University
and against Providence College due
to inclement weather. Instead, the
team will head down to West Point,
N.Y., for its first Patriot League
matchup of the season against the
U.S. Military Academy this Saturday.
While BU coach Kathryn Gleason is disappointed that the Terriers
(14-11) will not play their first game
at home Thursday, she said a couple
of extra games outside will be beneficial for the team.
“We’ve been on the road since
February,” Gleason said. “It would
have been nice to play on our own
field, but we’re not like any other

team across the country dealing with
the weather. We just need a couple
more games of sun and wind and I
think we’ll be ready to go.”
The Black Knights’ (9-15, 1-2
Patriot League) struggles stem from
pitching. Opponents are getting on
base at a .373 clip with 18 home runs,
115 RBI and slugging .463. The team
is led in the circle by pitchers Kristen West and Caroline Smith. West
boasts a 3.10 ERA in 38.1 innings,
including five starts. Smith leads the
team in starts with 10 and has posted
a 3.79 ERA over 61 innings.
Even with Army’s issues in the
pitching department, Gleason said
the Terriers just need to worry about
playing the same game that they have
all season.
“Just focusing on what we’ve
been focusing on all year,” Gleason

soFtBaLL, see page 7

The Bottom Line

Thursday, March 27

BU’s second goal, the attack committed a foul and received a yellow card.
Later in the half, Morse took
advantage of another free-position
opportunity and scored at the 8:05
mark, making it 3-0 in favor of BU.
Trying to get the swing in the other
direction, Yale called a timeout.
After the quick respite, the Yale
offense finally broke through as attack Tess McEvoy notched a goal at
the 4:40 mark for the Bulldogs, her
11th of the season, cutting BU’s lead
to just two.
No one scored for the remainder
of the half, and at the break, the Terriers led the Bulldogs, 3-1.
BU won the draw to start the second, and immediately capitalized,
with Morse scoring her third goal on
the day, completing her hat trick and
upping the score to 4-1.
“Though it [Morse’s game] was
great,” Robertshaw said. “There
were still some more chances she
could’ve taken, she knows it. But I
think it’s something-we saw more
looks, which is what I’m happy with.
Could we get more goals than six? I
would like us to. But I think we saw
better shots, and better shot opportunities.”
The Bulldogs would not give up
though, and they continued to get
shots off. Yale finally responded at
the 22:08 mark in the second half
when Daniggelis made it a two-goal
game again.
Yale continued to play with a lot
of intensity, but became foul-prone.
As the penalties mounted, Yale
started to back off the gas pedal. BU
capitalized on Yale’s softer play, as
redshirt sophomore attack Mallory
Collins scored her 12th goal on the
season, pushing BU’s lead back to
three.
The Bulldogs would answer just
three minutes later when attack Jen
DeVito scored an empty-net free-

Coming off of a two-game road
trip, the Boston University men’s
lacrosse team will return to Nickerson Field when it takes on the U.S.
Naval Academy Saturday afternoon.
On the first game of the trip at
Lafayette College March 15, the
Terriers (1-7, 1-3 Patriot League)
defeated the Leopards (1-6, 1-4 Patriot League) 12-7 for the program’s
first-ever victory. Redshirt freshman
attack Sam Tenney led the team with
four goals in the game. Freshman
attack Cal Dearth was moved to the
first line in freshman attack Pat Myers’ absence and set a program record with six points.
Against Bucknell University one
week later, the Terriers were not as
fortunate, falling to the Bison (54, 3-2 Patriot League) 7-3. BU got

Sunday, March 30
Softball @ Army, 1 p.m.

on the board early with a goal from
Craig Zebrowski just 62 seconds
into the contest and led 3-2 midway through the second quarter, but
thanks to an illegal stick penalty on
freshman midfielder Sam Talkow,
the Bison captured momentum and
scored four unanswered goals to
end the half. In the game’s waning
minutes when freshman goalkeeper
Tyler Zickel left the frame of the
goal, Bucknell took advantage of the
open-net opportunity.
The game was not devoid of positives for the Terriers, as Talkow went
a perfect 12-for-12 from the faceoff
X and freshman goalkeeper Christian Carson-Banister made nine
saves. BU’s defense also allowed its
fewest goals against of the season.
“Our guys are just getting comfortable back there,” Polley said

Men’s LaCrosse, see page 7

Monday, March 31

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more desirable than watching the Knicks
and Lakers play.